The 'Political Correctness'
Movement and
other socialist indicators in America

PCism
in America

"The most effective way of making people accept
the validity of the values they are to serve is to
persuade them that they are really the same as those which they … have
always held, but which were not properly understood or recognized
before.

"And the most efficient technique to this
end is to use the old words but change their meaning.

"Few
traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the
superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole
intellectual climate as the
complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of
the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed." — F. A. Hayek

"Our
cult of correctness not only is highly selective in its choice of
targets; it's also nothing but cowardice dressed up as good manners —
an attempt to silence important ideas, rather than taking the time to
grapple with them." —
Tony Snow

"Americans
need to be especially on guard against moves against free speech and
their right to keep and bear arms. The purpose of passing hate-crime
legislation is simply to lay the predicate for passing hate-speech
laws. ...Freedom and compulsion are contradictions. ...What the present
generation must do is guard against the growing trend toward more
authoritarian government. Government is never static. Its tendency is
always to move toward more power that means less freedom. But to do
that, the present generation must have more faith in itself than it
does in government. You can't have a free society unless you trust the
people." — Charley Reese

"I'm
all for symbolism. I love symbolism. But I love truth more. And the
problem with changing the races of the men who were photographed
raising the flag [at the World Trade Center] is that it's not true.
It's not factual. It didn't happen that way. Why does it matter? It
matters because truth always matters. In fact, it's all that
matters.... Once you start slicing and dicing truth, there's no end to
it. And once you become comfortable with little adjustments to truth, a
tweak here and a tweak there, you begin not to notice when truth
disappears altogether. Where truth is absent, tyranny reigns. Such,
ultimately, is the loathsome promise of political correctness. But it's
only a statue, you say, just a little thing no worse than a white lie
(pardon the exclusion). If it makes people feel better, what's the
harm? It's not the symbol, darling. It's what the symbol stands for,
which isn't truth. If not truth, then what if not a lie?" — Kathleen Parker

"The First Amendment says nothing
about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's
speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech.
Free people don't run to court – or to the principal – when they
encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their
own." — Jeff Jacoby

The Origins of Political CorrectnessBill
LindPolitical
correctness isn't funny. It's here, it's growing and it will eventually
destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined
as our freedom and our culture.

How Radical Feminism Sowed the
Seeds of
Our Transgender MomentScott YenorToday’s
transgender movement is the latest effort to overturn what are in fact
true assumptions about human life... People who identify as transgender
do not only wish to be tolerated. The public must come to affirm these
gender performances as admirable, healthy, and authentic. According to
this view, a person’s identity is never fully real until it is endorsed
by the public authorities and recognized as such by one’s fellow
citizens.

Little Anthony
Freemontīs Twilight Zone is Our RealityDoug MainwaringRemember
little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of
the "Twilight Zoneīs" most famous episodes? We have entered the
"Twilight Zone." The spirit of Anthony Freemont rules our collective
psyche, dictating our behaviors. And who is the Tyrant possessed of the
spirit of little Anthony? Progressive ideologues. Political correctness
seeks to silence all opposition to the advancement of progressive
ideology.

The Democrat Race LieBob ParksHistorical timeline exposing the actual record
of Democrat pro-slave/anti-civil rights actions and the efforts for
repeal by
the Republicans from
1858 to present day.
Example: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny
that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever” —Sen. Stephen Douglas
(D-IL), Democratic Party 1860 presidential nominee, Oct. 13, 1858.

One Nation Under Several Gods? Monte
KuligowskiRegardless of whether an individual personally
assents to its faith, every nation has a unifying faith in something or
someone. Every nation has its ultimate reality which supplies the basis
for its laws and morals and shapes its worldview.

The PCspeak of DiversityWendy McElroyPCspeak, like Newspeak in George Orwell's classic
novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, forms an effective
barrier to open discussion of ideas. Without the words necessary,
complex thoughts simply cannot be expressed.

“Mein Ehrre heisst Treue”
(My honor is my loyalty)William A.
MayerAside from showing an intolerance that is rather
surprising their [the Democrats] behavior underlines a tendency in the
party towards an absolute and unconditional loyalty that borders on
fanaticism.

There Ought Not
to Be a LawWendy McElroy"There ought to be a law" is the unspoken message
underlying much of public discourse. And that message makes people
reluctant to listen impartially because agreement might lead to yet
another regulation.

Purging
the Political Correctness WithinWendy
McElroyPolitical correctness is not just an ideology;
it is an attitude. And although the ideology may be dying out, it can
live on in the attitudes many of us have absorbed from our culture – a
culture that has been ravaged and dominated by political correctness
for decades.

Feminists,
Leftists "You're Next"Henry
Makow, Ph.D.'Political correctness' means adherence to
feminist doctrine. The term is alien to America because it originates
in the Communist Party. Second-wave feminism originated in the
Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and almost all its leading
activists were/are Marxists.

Flags Flap is Glimpse into
Academia's ValuesCharles D.
SnellingIt is important because it gives the public a
glimpse of the plague that infects some of America's finest
universities. It is known by a variety of names, including 'political
correctness,' 'PC' and 'deconstruction.'

Groupthink
and YouKaren De
Coster and Brad EdmondsYou see it in daycare centers, and you see it in
the public schools, from kindergarten to high school. Group projects
abound, shoving together individuals who have no formal bonds, yet are
banded together for the purpose of collective decision-making.

The ADL Pushes ''tolerance"?
Why I'm leaving after 25 yearsCarl
Pearlston"When I once confessed to our National Director,
Abe Foxman, my feelings of just spinning my wheels, he candidly told me
that I would have to realize that over 95% of those involved in the ADL
were liberal and would be unsympathetic to my conservative views."

America's Re-education CampsWendy
McElroyA major PC goal on American campuses is to
enforce "sensitivity" through a re-education of students' values.
Requiring attendance to sensitivity training has caused some critics to
make comparisons to Soviet psychiatry and the re-education camps of
some Communist countries, such as Maoist China.

Rethinking the Civil WarTibor R.
Machan...a monopolized educational system, run by
politically appointed "educators," tends to become a system of
indoctrination centers, not unlike how such a system is used by all
statist regimes once they get in charge of it.

The No-Speech CultureJohn LeoPolitical correctness hovers over university
campuses like an established religion. The notion that free speech is a
tool of the oppressor is now mainstream in the campus culture.

No Easy FixesKim WeissmanThe self-absorbed vanity and arrogance of the
boomer generation, by rejecting traditional morality and the cultural
norms that have evolved over centuries, has sown the wind, and society
is now reaping the whirlwind.

CULTUREFirst they came for the museums
and the art houses, and we did nothing. Then they came for the
universities, and, again, we did nothing. Then they took the publishing
houses and newspapers. But then, then, they came for Dr. Seuss – and it
was too late. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
recently became the most successful film of 2000. It earned about $220
million in slightly over a month, and could easily end up bringing in
$300 million. The original tale featured a Scrooge-like creature with
"termites in his smile" and "garlic in his soul" "You're a mean one,
Mr. Grinch," went the song, and that was all we needed to know about
him. ... In the new telling, the Grinch was
horribly wronged by mean-spirited Whovilleans. He was a misunderstood
child, raised in an alternative-lifestyle family, and was cast out from
the snowy Eden by petty, jealous meanies.
— Jonah Goldberg[from: The Patriot Post]

The Cookie Crumbles: The Girl
Scouts go PCKathryn
Jean LopezToday, the Girl Scouts is arguably one of the
most politically correct organizations in the country. The eyes — and
ire — of the world may well be on the wrong Scouts.

P.C.
- The New TyrannyWe are locked in the
clutches of the tyranny known as political correctness - a tyranny that
has been allowed to flourish on the campuses of our institutions of
higher learning and has now worked it way all the way down to
kindergarten level and out into the whole of society.